Is the Minimax’s evaluation function an Heuristic function?
Share
Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
Minimax is an algorithm to determine best next move according to an estimation of a given state.
In the vast majority of cases, it really is an estimation (heuristic) but that’s not always the case (e.g. when you give score to a “win” situation – you give it infinity, and you can really say that’s what it’s worth). Maybe one can argue that’s an estimation as well.. But you get the point (-:
Anyhow you can use Minimax either if you estimate, or if you know exactly what’s the score of the given states.